No matter how tired we are in the course of a difficult day’s work, there is always the reassuring feeling that at the end of the hard work we’ll go back to sleep in the comfort of our home. But there are millions of people in our cities who simply do not have a home. The homeless of our cities suffer the most; yet they are the most neglected. No...
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SC threatens Orissa with CBI probe for NREGA bungling
Expressing serious concern over faulty implementation of the government’s flagship programme, NREGA, in Orissa, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the centre and the state government to explain within four weeks why a CBI probe should not be ordered into the irregularities. “We are constrained to observe that the Union of India as well as the state of Orissa, prima facie, have failed to effectively and purposefully implement the provisions of...
More »'We want a dialogue between Naxalites and the government' by Jyoti Punwani
Manish Kunjam , a former MLA and president of All India Adivasi Mahasabha, the tribal front of the CPI, is the only politician in Bastar who continues to organise Adivasis peacefully for their constitutional rights. Jyoti Punwani spoke to Kunjam about doing politics while facing police repression and Naxal violence: After a long gap, Chhattisgarh recently witnessed two massiveAdivasirallies.What were your demands? The Chhattisgarh government is running under the writ...
More »SC faults Centre, states on NREGS implementation
The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped the Union and state governments for their failure to discharge their duties under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( NREGA) aimed at providing "right to livelihood" to millions of poor in the hinterlands. Noting the disbursal of Rs 33,506 crore out of the total available fund of Rs 42,529 crore for 2009-10, a Bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices K S...
More »Supreme Court seeks govt’s response on funds utilisation of MGNREGA
The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre and the Orissa government as to why the probe into the alleged irregularities in utilisation of funds for implementation of MGNREGA scheme not be handed over to the CBI. “Why not a direction be given to CBI to investigate the matter in accordance with law,” a bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia said. The bench directed the chief secretary of Orissa...
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